It seems like the labor problems at the plants of country’s leading car makers are not going to stop any time sooner. Just a month after the end of a series of labor strikes at the country’s largest car maker Maruti Suzuki’s Manesar plant, a section of workers at Chennai based manufacturing plant of Hyundai Motors are threatening to go on a strike from today. The agitating Hyundai workers are demanding reinstatement of 18 co-workers, whom the car maker had sacked recently.
It has been insisted by the Hyundai Motors India Employees Union (HMIEU) that the sacked workers who were not taken back under the last year’s tripartite agreement, must be taken back. It is to be mentioned here that HMIEU is not recognized by the management of Hyundai Motors India. In a statement given to PTI, HMIEU Honorary President A. Soundararajan, said, "What we want is that the dismissed employees must be reinstated. We are planning to be on strike in front of the plant from tomorrow."
Hyundai Motors India Limited (HMIL) management had suspended 32 workers from its Chennai plant in June last year, during a three day long strike. However, the company had agreed to take back 14 workers out of these suspended employees, following a tripartite agreement signed by the car maker with agitating workers in the presence of government of Tamil Nadu.
While speaking on the threat of going on strike by HMIEU, the company spokesman said that any agitation on this issue would be a violation of this tripartite agreement. Hence as per the terms of this agreement the matter stands closed.
Hyundai is the second largest car manufacturer in the Indian market and exports highest number of cars from the Indian market.
